<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I wonder how much it would cost to license the reference design/drivers/BIOS from Nvidia? Assuming nobody starts making something akin to the little black box (or just the base mobo+cpu), It might be interesting to look into getting a run of them made up.<div><br></div><div>-Pete</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 13, 2009, at 7:11 AM, Robert Kulagowski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I attended CES and saw the ION. There were three on display, running <br>Vista, and showing a number of demos. One was a slide show, one was a <br>helicopter shot of the Vegas strip video loop and one was a video of the <br>MythBusters demonstrating a paintball gun drawing a smiley face and then <br>a parallel version of the paintball robot that shot something like 300 <br>paintballs at the same time. None of the videos exhibited glitches that <br>I could see, and part of the slideshow was an image of the CPU <br>utilization while rendering the video demo. Pretty negligible.<br><br>The box really is small. Just looking at the stuff on my desk, I would <br>say that it's about the size of the 5-port Linksys SD205 that's sitting <br>next to me.<br><br>The three that were on display were behind plexiglass, so you couldn't <br>actually touch them. They were running though, because one had crashed, <br>and someone with small hands from NVidia had to reach in and reset it. <br>When it was booting it showed that it was something like MC79 Pico VGA <br>BIOS. It went quick, so I didn't see much more than that.<br><br>Externally it had 2xeSATA, VGA, DVI, 6x3.5mm audio, and I believe there <br>were 2 USB and a CAT5 connector.<br><br>There is a fan on the Atom processor - it looks like a 40mm, but I put <br>my ear up to the plexiglass case near one of the "hand-holes" and didn't <br>hear a jet engine.<br><br>I could see NVidia getting around the restriction of having to use the <br>Northbridge by putting the 9400 on a mini PCIe daughterboard. The DVI <br>connector was at a different elevation than the VGA, and the cardboard <br>cutout mockups of the motherboard they were handing out sort of implied <br>that was a possibility.<br><br>NVidia said that they believe that vendors will have the units available <br>in the summer.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>